SUPPLY CHAIN ARTICLES
-
FDA Sets Recommendations For Predicting Dangerous Nitrosamine Impurities
The FDA recently published a final guidance that sets a recommended framework for predicting the potential of nitrosamine drug substance-related impurities.
-
Assessing Quality Of mRNA Vaccines: Key Considerations
To address the need for standards for mRNA vaccines, the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) has convened vaccine experts to identify important quality attributes and to propose test methods that can be used to assess mRNA vaccine products. This article shares those CQAs and analytical procedure tips.
-
Cultivating A Thriving mRNA Ecosystem: Key Initiatives & Future Directions
Overall, I felt that the following initiatives/talking points were demonstrative of the types of creativity and symbiosis that we will need much more of in the near and long-term to foster a healthy and fruitful RNA ecosystem.
-
The Expanding Patent Landscape For RNA-Based Therapeutics
The COVID-19 pandemic thrust RNA-based therapeutics into the spotlight. Before that, only a handful had received regulatory approval. Why are RNA-based therapeutics seeing more patent activity now and how should biotech companies mitigate patent risks? Attorneys from Neal Gerber Eisenberg share their insights.
-
Beyond The Gold Standard(s): Modernizing Oligonucleotide Synthesis
A few weeks ago, I had the chance to sit down with OPT Congress speaker Phil Baran, Richard Lerner Chair Professor, Department of Chemistry, Scripps Research. Baran was slated to (and did) present a keynote on the innovations shaping the next generation of oligo synthesis. Here, I share the biggest takeaways I had from our conversation, touching on how he sees the science of oligo chemistry and manufacturing advancing in the near and far future.
-
Biomanufacturing Capacity Crunch: It's The Supply Chain's Fault
What's behind the protracted biopharma manufacturing capacity crunch, when will it end, and what are manufacturers doing to keep supply on track? During Biotech Week in Boston ad BioProcess International, CDMOs and sponsors weighed in.
ARTICLES, APP NOTES, CASE STUDIES, & WHITE PAPERS
-
Ensuring consistent replication and proper retention of plasmid DNA sequence is vital to the economics and efficiency in generating starting materials used for production of AAV delivered gene therapy and mRNA vaccines and therapeutics.
-
We aim to highlight that commercially available LNP reagent mix, GenVoy-ILM, is an accessible and easy-to-use LNP formulation that allows for rapid preclinical development of RNA vaccines.
-
Rapid advancements in mRNA-based therapeutic development have underscored the role of raw material quality and supply chain management in ensuring their successful production.
-
A review of insights derived from the development of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines and how they can be applied to accelerate progress in the manufacture of vaccines and therapeutics moving forward.
-
Explore a program focused on achieving process consistency through risk mitigation in four key areas: raw materials sourcing, equipment, manufacturing processes, and finished product testing.
-
An end-to-end supply chain model helps clinical trials move faster while maintaining visibility, control, and risk management across complex, temperature‑sensitive, and global operations.
-
Treating cryopreservation as a validated, controlled input improves consistency, quality, and patient outcomes by reducing variability across cell therapy manufacturing, storage, and distribution.